Am 18.03.2014 09:37, schrieb Sekhar Nori:
It is safe - at the least it does not break anything that is already working. I guess the decision to put it into -rc depends on whether you consider out of tree dtbs to be a valid usecase for the kernel.
That's all DT is about, getting rid of the necessity for in-tree hw-descriptions. ;)
But I don't need any rush here, I'm just unable to understand why the -rc phase isn't used for bug fixing as I believe that's what this phase is for.
Most people are unable to track the various -next trees, therefor many failures only come up when stuff reaches mainline where it might be tested by some more people. And if all bugs found in the -rc phase are fixed in -next only, the -rc phase would be useless.
And it just happened to me too often, that even silly bugfixes (like oneliners) needed between 5 and 9 months to reach a stable kernel and thus users.
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